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gleaned from the fisheries, for salmon following the coast are here 
caught in nets, and lobsters are trapped just off the shores. The 
buildings connected with these fisheries, sometimes small, scat- 
tered huts, but more often clustered near the little lighthouses 
at the gullies, are the only habitations the Beaches show. From 
a distance, especially in certain quiet hazy states of the atmos- 
phere, the low-lying Beaches seem to sink from view, and leave 
the gray buildings floating mirage-like upon the waters. The 
low, gray line of distant Beaches, the weathered buildings shim- 
mering on the water, the distant roar of billows on the outer 
beach, the murmur of wind in the Beach Grass, the screaming 
of the gulls over the still lagoon, a feeling of peace and content, 
these are the character-feelings of the Beach country. To some 
the Beaches may seem drear and without charm, but they have 
ample attraction for those who love strong and simple things 
and the open places of the earth. 
So definitely are the Beaches marked off by their bounding 
headlands that it is possible to classify them very definitely, 
as indeed is done in the speech of the residents, who name them 
for the /i vers before which they lie. They are as follows: 
1. Miscou Beaches. With these belongs the remarkable and instructive 
great beach plain at Grande Plaine, which I have already described in an 
earlier Note (No. 97, and in the Botanical Gazette, XLH, 81) and which 
is mapped, with those following, on the physiographic map accompanying 
the note mentioned. Then follows a series of five beaches, extending from 
headland to headland, enclosing ponds and the two Mai Baies, all clearly 
shown upon the map above-mentioned. The headland between the two 
Mai Baies is of soft peat, rapidly disappearing before the inroads of the sea, 
and here the beaches are following it inward to the detriment of their typical 
forms. Finally there is the fine great beach extending across to Shippegan 
Island, cut by Miscou Gully. 
2. Shippegan Beach. A very short and imperfect beach, extending 
from Shippegan Island to the mainland, and cut by Shippegan Gully. 
The maps appear also to show a small beach enclosing some ponds 
just south of Pigeon Hill on Shippegan Island . 
3. Pokemouche Beach. Extends from the upland point close to Shippegan 
Gully clear to Green Point, enclosing Little Pokemouche and Pokemouche 
Lagoons, and cut by two gullies. 
4. Tracadie Beach. Extends from Green Point (glacial upland on a 
